Land Expropriation

This piece is the transcript of a lecture titled: “Expropriation Without Compensation: South Africa, Welcome to Zimbabwe,” delivered at the Conference on Security of Property Rights in Johannesburg, South Africa, organized by the Free Market Foundation, on November 20th, …

This piece is the transcript of a lecture titled: “Expropriation Without Compensation: South Africa, Welcome to Zimbabwe,” delivered at the Conference on Security of Property Rights in Johannesburg, South Africa, organized by the Free Market Foundation, on November 20th, …

The constitutional controversies surrounding the debates about the expropriation of farmlands from white farmers without compensation is already tearing South Africa apart and extreme care must be taken not to escalate it into a region-wide catastrophe. In pursuing this policy, …